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LIGHTED CIGARETTE rocoo MM GONE A short time ago a careless ore are gall motorist tossed a lighted cigar ette tie from his car an ali area of ceres covered with young timber was vas burned at the present average limber price that means that 70 COO in pay tolls rolls and supplies was wa lost to the state and according tc a conservation authority it would leally amount to a loss ot of well ovel a million dollars in the future re sources of the state stale many decades decade are required before a burned ir tree ee i lp replaced and devastated land becomes valuable again preventing tire fire is said to be 75 per cent ot of reforestation and more than 90 pel pe cent ot of all forest fires are man made in every lumber state yov you ran can see thousands of ghostly acres covered with only tile tho blackened stumps of once great trees grim monuments to ignorance and carelessness every individual owes his fellow citizens an obligation when he goes into the woods or drives through tinb timbered ered country that obligation th ib easily but failure to do aso 0 o may rendit in ili the loss 0 of millions of dollars and aal the ruin of al biblo 10 lo natural beauties take the utmost care with smoking g materials and dont throw matches and butts even though you think out from your car watch campfires camp fires like a hawk and when you leave saturate them with water thet bury with dirt obey the law especially ally the local rulings that art arl put into effect during fire seasons in areas where hazards are arc especially great remember that forests are our heritage and that it is up us ua whether we dissipate or conserve that magnificent legacy